Aerial view of the Ni-les'tun Unit of Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. Phase I construction of the 418-acre tidal marsh restoration project can be seen. Full restoration of the site will occur in Sept 2011.

View of the existing overhead electrical transmission line through Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. The transmission line will be relocated underground using trench and boring techniques from this bluff on the north side of the Coquille River...

Logs with root wads still attached are being stockpiled for later use. The logs will be placed in tidal channels to provide large woody debris habitat used by juvenile anadromous fish such as coho salmon.

USFWS biologist Bill Bridgeland taking measurements on a Surface Elevation Table (SET) installed last year in cooperation with USGS. SETs will allow us to detect changes in the elevation of the marsh surface in response to the marsh restoration as...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists monitoring ditch filling. Ditches are filled slowly to pushing any fish downstream out of the construction area. Fish are also captured and relocated when...

Juvenile Pacific Giant Salamanders are one of the species being captured and relocated safely out of the construction area. Hoop nets are one of the techniques for removing and relocating fish and amphibians from agricultural ditches that are being...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Fisheries Biologist Christopher Claire helps with installation of stream bedding material in the Redd Creek culvert. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has been an invaluable partner on this...

A segment of the new meandering channel of Fahys Creek constructed through the Smith Tract. Large woody debris and gravel was placed all along the new stream channel to diversify habitat and stream substrate. Piles of gravel were placed along the...